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POUNDEU 1881

No 14315 -# #TЯEX MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1934.

日五十月二十

KINGLE ODPY 16 CROUZE MIN PER ANNUM

BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION IN GRAVE PERIL

NAGASAKI FERRY DISASTER

Five Dead and Thirteen Missing

Nagasaki, Jan. 29.

First reports of the ferry disaster appear to have been grossly oxaggerated. Con-

Disastrous Disintegration of Ice-Shelf in Bay of Whales

FORTY-THREE MEN MAROONED

trary to suggestions that JACOB RUPPERT ADRIFT

hundreds had been drowned

in the icy waters of the har-

bour, only five persons are known to have lost their lives. Thirteen are still missing.Reuter.

AMERICAN

1

WOMEN LEAP

FOR LIFE

BAGUIO FIRE DISASTER

APARTMENT HOUSE GUTTED ་་་

(Our Own, Correspondent).

(B Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic New sages Ordinanov, 1234, Received, January 70, 11.33, 1.0.) ·

Baguio, Jan. 29. A number of American women figured prominently in a fire drama at Baguio last night when they were obliged to make daring leaps for life from the

upper storeys_of_a_blazing_apart-

ment house.

The outbreak occurred in a well- known

apartment house in

:

UNABLE TO BERTH

DRAMATIC RADIO MESSAGES

"

New York, Jan. 28, Dramatic wireless messages from Admiral Byrd's flagship, the Jacob Ruppert, in the Antarctic, reveal that gravest poril has over- taken of the members of the polar expedi-

many tion and that the ship itself in gravely menaced. Forty-three members of the expedition ȧre marooned.

The ice-shelf covering the Bay of Whales is disintegrating rapidly.

The Jacob Ruppert is drifting helplessly. unable to berth.

The "Jacob Ruppert,” Admiral Byrd's flagship, which has drifted from the ice shelf in the Bay

of Whales and is unable to find a berth. Forty-three members of the expedition are marooned,

HONGKONG

WIN INTERPORT

TENNIS PLAYERS'

SUCCESS

INDO-CHINA LOSE

4 TO

(By "Veritas"

Hongkong won the official

The cause of the disaster, which may of course be remedied is the abnormally high tem-tennis Interport against Indo- perature in the Bay of Whales. Usually bitterly China at Hanoi on Saturday and cold, the temperature is only a trifle below Sunday by four matches to one, freezing point and the warmer waters sweeping into the bay are breaking up the ice.

this morning from Ho Ka-lau, the Hongkong captain.

according to a telegram received

SURPRISE MOVE IN FRENCH CRISIS

Paris, Jan. 28.. France's new Premier Is not yet. selected. M. Herriot is favourite for the post and there is talk of the formation by him of a National Government, move which would be wel- comed in Britain.

a

A surprise.. development, which failed of its purpose. was an invitation to ex- President Doumergue to form a Cabinet, ..... He de- clined. Reuter.

WAR EPISODE RECALLED

DRUMS OF GORDON No details of the scores were given, but in view of the anticipn- HIGHLANDERS · UNEXPECTEDLY MILD WEATHER- tlons of the Hongkong teams,-ex- pressed in a letter referred to in our sports pages, it is quite like- RETURNING ly that Tsui Wai-pui,and Tam Yoc- Very real apprehension is felt for the expedition and it was fong won both of their singles FROM GERMANY Dakota, a little settlement on for the safety of the forty-three planned to put the machines car-games, and that the Hanol players Bagulo's outskirts, the Inmates members of the Expedition whp ried by the Jacob Ruppert over captured the doubles match.

London, Jan. 29. being almost entirely the wives of

the side to be flown later on ex- The encounter, run on Davis General Sir Ian Hamilton American Army and Navy officers. are marooned in a pressure camp.

The whole house was completely Admiral Byrd, in his wireless ploratory trips over the great up lines, was afranged so that on is proceeding to Berlin to gutted and it was fortunate that messages, does not suggest that he Antarctic continent and the South Van-Duong in the first match, morrow to receive from Pre- Eident von Hindenburg the drums of the Gordon High- landers, of which he is the Colonel-in-Chief.

*

ICE CRUMBLING

Saturday Tsui Wai-pul, met Trap- followed by Tam Yoc-fong and J. The sudden development of Saumont. Then on Sunday the doubles between Ho Ka-lau and. mild weather will throw back Tsui Wai-pui and Duong and Diao, Admiral Bryd's schedule for some succeeded by. Teul against Saumont considerable time, even if the and Tam against Tran-Van-Duong. present danger to the marooned Party is overcome.-Reuter.

the are developed in the early or his ship are in any danger, but he Pole. evening before the hour for sleep. is alarmed for his men who he cannot reach because his flagship ONE BADLY HURT,

is drifting and is unable to berth An' it was many women found in consequence of the rapid dis- themselves trapped in the second integration of the ice-shelf, and third Boors of the building. and were compelled to make spec- tacular leaps to save their lives. All the ice in the bay is crumb- One of the women was badlyling, making it impossible for the hurt and was sent to hospital. The Jacob Rupport to lend any assis rest are safe. All suffered heavyj tance to those marooned at the 'losses in personal property.

camp ΟΙ for those ashore to make any attempt to get back to the ship..

YELLOW RIVER'S TRAGIC TOLL

SCORES OF CORPSES OBSERVED

Peking, Jan. 29. Corpses floating down the Yellow River have become a daily spectacle

inundated as the result of a sudden

tion.

pressure

Four other members of the expedition who landed on Little America are stated by Admiral Bryd to have been cut off from their comrades.

PLANS UPSET

.

All the Exopdition's plans have been upset by these startling developments, due entirely to the unanticipated mildness of

the

weather.

ago

conditions acemed to be

FORTY-ONE FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH

KOREA ISLAND

TRAGEDY

Nagasaki, Jan. 29.

A terrible winter tragedy

The programme also included singles between Ho Kalau and Samarcq ou Samuel, as well as two exhibition doubles.

The Interport is for a trophy

donated by M. Peyroux.

The drums wero left, in Ostend |in 1914 when the regiment made a forced march towards threatened Antwerp.

The regiment never returned to Ostend and the drums fell into the hands of the Germans.

SIR FRANCIS LINDLEY sident Hindenburg's action in re-

LEAVING TOKYO

Since the War they have reposed In the German War Muscuro.

Sir Ian Hamilton describes Pro-

turning the drums as a gallant gesturo by, an old soldier of world- wide reputation.-Router.

CHARHAR FRONTIER CRISIS

FRESH INVASION THREATENED

JAPANESE ARMY. ACTIVITY

Peking, Jan. 29.

The situation in Charhar

A SOLDIER'S "ROMANCE"

MARRIED MAN WITH A WIFE IN ENGLAND

PERJURY CHARGE IN KOWLOON

An unusual case came before Mr. Wyme-Jones at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning when James Leslie Bryant, private soldier in the Lincoln- shire Regiment, was charged with perjury,

The detailed charge alleges that ho, on October 16, 1933, at the office of the Registrar of Marriages, wilfully made a statement false in declara. a material particular in tion made under Section 12 of the Marriage Ordinance of 1875, namely that there was not any impediment of kindred or alliance or any other hindrancep-of-this--). marriage with Lucy Leong...

It was alleged by Inspector Shaftain that defendant was a married man with a wife in Eng- land. He informed the Court that the Agsistant Attorney General would be prosecuting in the case | and applied for a. remand.

His Worship accordingly re- manded the uage

fixed and February 8 for the hearing..

Defendant was remanded .in military custody.

An announcement of the impond-

has again taken a turn for ing marriage of Bryant and Miss

the worse, according to Chi-Lucy Leong was posted at the Registry Office în Cetóber lust nese reports, which state being withdrawn the following day, that Japanese and Manchu-| [kuo' troops are making sporadic attacks on the Chi- nese-forces-at-Lungmensu

NEW TERRITORY

· OUTRAGE

The Japanese are alleged to be ROBBERS CARRY OFF erecting an air-field and a motor- road in the Fengning district.

SMALL GIRL Lorries laden with military sup- plies are stated to be running A robbery and kidnapping out- between Fengning and Takuo- rage committed in the New Terri

tories last night is engaging the chang

attention of the Criminal In- vestigation Department.

general feeling that a fresh in- The reports add that there is a vasion of east Charhar is minent-Reuter

FAIR WEATHER

im-

A preliminary police report states that a considerable amount of money and valuable jewellery, as well as clothing was stolen, and

a girl, Tong Shu-nagan, aged five years, was kidnapped.

Fow details are to hand, but it The anticyclone has moved into the Pacific to the east of Japan. ad with mattocks, hatchets and re- a reported that twenty men, arm, and another is developing to the volvers, carried out the raid,, in a north of Shantung. Local fore-matshed at San Wai village, in the cast:-N.E. winds, fresh; fair,

Ping Shan district,

SAFETY FIRST !

It's better to take care

than to take risks.

New Ambassador to Be MYSTERY CONFERENCE

Appointed

London, Jan. 20.

It is authoritatively learned that|

appointment of a successor to Sir

AT SINGAPORE

tion in connection with the Naval

STATEMENT Singapore, Jan. 29.

Baso; The Far Eastern Naval Conference has concluded

The raid was carried out about 10.30 o'clock last night, and the direction of light of the maraud- ors, who carried off the child, is at. present unknown.

The total value of the haut is given as $5,550.

ANOTHER RAID.

Half an hour after the first raid, the robbers appeared at an- other hut in the same village, when they stole $160 in cash and cloth- ing, and also carried away Tang Ying-lol, the five-year-old son of Cheung Fun-ying,"wife of 'n far-

The men spoke Hakka, and dis- played by their movements a close knowledge of villago personalities.

in the Hualisien district of Honan, all the Jacob Ruppert reach-is reported from the lonely the British Government has asked TERMINATES WITHOUT OFFICIAL mer where scores of villages have beened the Bay of Whales eleven days island of Dagelet, (Matsu for Japan's agreement to the rise in the level of the river admirable and the famous leader of, Shima), off the east coast of Francis Lindley as Ambassador in Heavy Ico jams from the upper the expedition was jubilant when Korea, which has been Tokyo. regions have aggravated the situa-the ship dropped anchor within isolated from the rest of the will be announced in London on It la expected that an agreement Many boats filled with refugees and the ice Arm, and more im-world for some days by a Tuesday, Sir Francis Lindley Is are reported to have capsized in portant to the Admiral at that furiously raging snow bliz-expected to leave Tokyo in April.

me, the throo 60-foot wireless towora intact at the camp of his first Antarctic Expedition. ¡

The camp buildings wero stili there, though covored in snow,

the swirling waters, causing a serious loss of life.-Reuter,

MISSING MAN.

the barrier walls of tho bay to

PARTY LANded

The landing, warty was put ashore to prepare the new camp

zard.

Bleak onough in normal times the island has been completely snowbound and for some days anxiety has been felt for the safety of the inhabitanta in the Arctic conditions prevalling.

-Router.

́FRANCE AGAIN

CAPITULATES.

It is understood that no off-local aquadrons.

reserve;

FUKIEN

4. The Far Eastern situation; BANDITRY RIFE IN 4. Matters. generally affecting! The Admiralty has made no cial statement will be issued statement, and the four points regarding the decisions enumerated must be accepted with.

OFFICIAL WARNING reached.:

Apart from Admiral Sir Fro-] = TO MISSIONARIES Admiral Sir Frederis Dreyer is deric Dreyer, Commander-in-Caluf, doparting for Hongkong on Feb- China Station, who presided, Vico-

Foochow, Jan. 29.. |ruary 1 aboard H.M.S: Suffolk. Admiral. M. E, Dunbar-Nasmith, Foreign missionaries have been The fact that H.M.S. Kent in Rear-Admiral Robin C, Dalglish advised not to return to their fields A rescue party succeeded in QUOTA RESTORED ON

which the discussions: took place, and Rear-Ad, F. B. Wathen, others of work in North Fukion at present, BRITISH COTTONS ia moored in the most obscuro taking part ware Sir Cecil as "Red" banditry is widespread

part of Singapore harbour, has Clementi, Governor of the Straits there. Paris, Jan. 20. 1 is learned that the restoration thing of importance has been un-LC. L. Oldfeld, General Officer troops are engaged in campaiming fanned the rumours that some-Settlements, and Major-General While the Central Government Forty-one persons have already of the full 100 per cent. of the der discussion.

Commanding, Malaya. boon found frozen to death. The import quotas on certain imports The agenda të believed have

against the "Red" in the Yenping Conferences at Singapore, were District, an alarming report states The wedding is announced to take storm was still raging when the of British cotton, notably unbleach included the following points. begun as far back as 1921. al- that a "Red"-bandit group, about had make without notifying them.pl word & Divisional Inspector rescue-party landed and there is ed-cotton, has boon decided upon 1. Discussion of the future of though the one now in session is 4,000 strong, is forcing their way: Mr, Olace Is bottor known 1. Shannon, of the Hongkong Police, reason to fear that when further following, not only the British Singapore as a naval contre; the first in the past eight years. Into Shaoning, Troops are being Johnson, under which name he and Miss. Joyce Coleman, of Phillips Investigations are possible, many protests, but representations from --2--The progress- of-constrúe+ | Reuter. formerly ran a barber shop.

rushed to the scéne, Central Ne108. House, Kowloon.

others will be found dead.—Resta”, French users.--Router,

MERELY WENT TO MACAO

Innding on the faland last night

Anxiety caused to the family

The 65. Conto Rosso sailed from that their worst fears were only of Mr. Serverino Olaca, by his Singapore at 9 am, on Sunday and too accurate, prolonged absence from home is expected to arrive here at day- aince Friday, was dispelled this light on Thursday. morning when he returned homo from a trip to Macao which ho